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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Varanasi, June 24, 2010: The Banaras Hindu University Court on Thursday unanimously elected Dr Karan Singh as Chancellor of the university for the third time. Singh’s present three-year tenure will expire in July this year.
The court meeting was held in the chairmanship of vice-chancellor Prof. DP Singh in the absence of Dr. Karan Singh the chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. Dr Singh is on a foreign trip till July 3.
Rajya Sabha MP Kalraj Mishra and member of BHU Court said that it was a privilege of Varanasi that university court had unanimously elected such a learned person as chancellor for third time.
He said that we should invite Dr. Karan Singh for a public felicitation by Varanasi people. Prof. S A Abbasi of Pondicherry and a member of the court congratulated vice chancellor Professor DP Singh for BHU getting 1st position in “India Today-Nielsen” survey conducted recently.
All the court members gave standing ovation to BHU vice-chancellor on the request of Professor Abbasi. Dr. Manju Sharma raised issues of rural development and malnutrition and made a request that BHU should come forward to work on these areas.
Dr. Mishra also highlighted the issue of rural development and rural health. Kashi Naresh Anant Narayan Singh raised the issue of Clean Ganga Programme and the role of BHU.
Members also discussed the development issue of Rajiv Gandhi South Campus.
Photo caption: Dr Karan Singh (top)
Banaras Hindu University vice-chancellor Professor DP Singh and others attending BHU Court meeting in Varanasi on June 24, 2010.
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About BHU court
http://www.bhu.ac.in/bhuact/bhuact_chap11.htm
8A. Authorities of the University
The following shall be the authorities of the University, namely:
(a) The Court,
(b) The Executive Council,
(c) The Academic Council,
(d) (Omitted)
(e) The Finance Committee,
(f) The Faculties,
(g) Such other authorities as may be declared by the Statutes to be the authorities of the University.
(1) The Court shall be an advisory body and its functions shall be-
(a) To advise the Visitor in respect of any matter which may be referred to it for advice;
(b) To advise any authority of the University in respect of any matter which may be referred to the Court by such authority ; and
(c) To perform such other duties and exercise such other powers as may be assigned to it by the Visitor or under this Act.
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Varanasi, July 21, 2010: Mahamana Malaviya Mission organised a felicitation function at Malaviya Smriti Bhawan in New Delhi to celebrate the historical occasion of Banaras Hindu University’s achievement of getting first rank in the country.
The theme of the function was “Celebrating Our Pride: BHU-Rank No. 1 in the Country” Delhi NCR Chapter of BHU Alumni Association felicitated BHU vice-chancellor Professor DP Singh for guiding and leading the University in achieving this coveted recognition.
The BHU got first position among 140 universities in the country in the latest survey called “India’s Best Universities” conducted by Nielson and India Today (May 31, 2010) by scoring 9 per cent higher index than its nearest rival JNU. The survey was focused on various criteria like “Reputation of the University”, “Quality of Academic Input”, “Quality of the Faculty”, “Research Publications/Reports/Projects” and “Infrastructure”.
BHU was ranked first on all these five criteria with overall first position followed by JNU second and Delhi University third. On this occasion, Professor Singh expressed his immense happiness and extended heartiest congratulations to the BHU community for its becoming instrumental in achieving this historic success.
Putting another feather in its cap, BHU again emerged as the top university in another survey conducted by Outlook and MDRA of Indian College Association of Professional Association among multi-disciplinary universities (Outlook June 28, 2010).
BHU was also ranked first for bringing out highest number of publications. It figured among the top five universities as per the Citation Index and Impact Factor of Research Publication (Current Science Vol. 97, No. 6, 25th September, 2009). Earlier BHU was ranked first by the Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt. of India, on the basis of the highest number of Bhatnagar Awardees, INSA fellows and publications in research journal.
In the function, “Wisdom for Happy Life” a book by Dr. DS Rathore, former vice-chancellor Himanchal Pradesh Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Palampur, former Assistant Director General, ICAR and currently EC member of BHU was jointly released by former Governor of Tamil Nadu, Bhisam Narayan Singh and Professor DP Singh.
This book aims to serve as a practical manual for people to learn and practise wisdom in order to lead a happy life.
In this programme, a presentation of BHU was made by Professor Rajesh Singh, Chairman, PPP Cell, BHU. The guest of the honor of the programme was former Governor of Tamil Nadu, Bhisam Narayan Singh. The programme started with welcome address by president of MMM Trust, Veena Modi. PL Jaiswal, trustee of the MMM Trust also spoke on the occasion. Hari Shankar Singh, secretary general, MMM Trust proposed a vote of thanks.
Vice Chancellor Professor DP Singh announced that Information Center of Banaras Hindu University would start functioning very shortly at the Malviya Smriti Bhawan in New Delhi.
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Prof. D. P. Singh receiving award (on right)
Varanasi, June 5, 2010: Banaras Hindu University vice-chancellor Professor DP Singh won the Environmentalist of the Decade Award on the occasion of World Environment Day on Saturday.
Dr Singh won this prestigious award for his outstanding contributions in field of environmental front in short span of two years as BHU vice-chancellor.
Earlier, the university celebrated the World Environment Day by organizing a function. Former deputy managing director of Indian Council of Medical Research Dr VP Sharma was the chief guest while Professor RS Tripathi of National Botanical Research Institute and Dr SN Subbarao of Gandhi Peace Foundation were the special guests.
Dr DP Singh a multi-faceted personality
An academician by experience, an environmentalist by heart, Professor Dhirendra Pal Singh was born in the village Simrau in the District Etah, in the reputed family of Shri Khushal Singh Ji on 8th December, 1956. He obtained his Ph. D. degree in Botany with Specialization in Environmental Science from Garhwal University, Srinagar.
Prof. D.P. Singh has over two and half decades of rich professional experience and is a well known personality in the field of environment, educational management and administration. His contributions in Teaching, Training, Research and Development in the areas of higher education, environmental sciences and vocational education are note worthy. Prof. Singh possesses a rich and ascending career graph replete with excellence, drive, and dynamism. Besides providing vibrant leadership in shaping up of academic and research environment of institutes and universities of national and state level, Prof. Singh has contributed immensely in teaching and research which is evident from his publications in the form of books and research papers. He started his career as teacher and rose to the position of the Vice Chancellor of two important Universities of India. He has held many responsible positions in institutions of repute including PSS Central Institute of Vocational Education, an apex institution of MHRD at Bhopal as Professor in Environmental Science and Head of HSE Division. He has also served in institutions of higher education and environmental education.
Prof. Dhirendra Pal Singh joined as 24th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi – the largest University and a great seat of learning, after completing his tenure as Vice-Chancellor of Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar, the oldest University of Madhya Pradesh that has also been accorded the status of central university by his tireless efforts. Prof. Singh is working with a pious mission of providing a sparkling and vibrant leadership role in shaping up of our national policies on education to compete with the international standards. Highly inspired by the life and philosophy of the founder of the university Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya ji, Prof. Singh is trying his best to realize the vision and high ideals set by the great visionary. His administrative vision and high ideals for the University is reflected by his sincere efforts to develop a blueprint for next twenty five years for optimal growth and development of BHU and to cope up with the growing needs of the goal of 'Excellence in Higher Education'. His dream to promote human values among the university fraternity and desire for value based education in the campus is inspiring and is gradually taking a concrete shape.
Through his unassuming style, firm belief in the principle of participative leadership, and deep rooted humanistic values and approach, the Banaras Hindu University has achieved several laurels under his dynamic leadership in a very short time span of about two years since his joining as Vice Chancellor. Recently, BHU has been ranked first among 140 Indian Universities surveyed in first ever India Today-Nielson Survey on the country leading higher educational institution, which identifies the centres of excellence at a time when university education is at the centre of national controversy and is in need of radical legislative reforms. It will be highly appreciated if HRD Ministry come forward and make a note of such survey and the universities which have excelled get special attention by the ministry to promote at least few Universities to make an appropriate investment to build them world class universities. BHU should get top priority as being situated in area which symbolizes heights of poverty, unemployment and other related problems will certainly be ideal place to cater the need of whole Purvanchal, Bihar and near by states. Let us salute BHU in the leadership of Prof. D. P. Singh for maintaining its glorious history and keeping pace with excellence in higher education.
Under the dynamic leadership of Prof. D.P. Singh, the University has emerged as National leader in the field of Environment. Among the many initiatives taken on the Environmental front few are the university has adopted an Environmental Calendar that was unveiled by none less than Hon'ble President of India, Shrimati Pratibha Devisingh Patil, on 14th March, 2009. A foundation stone of a new Institute of the Banaras Hindu University i.e. the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development was laid down by His Excellency Shri B.L. Joshi, the Governor of Uttar Pradesh. Establishment of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Chair for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development is another major achievement of the University in the area of environment and sustainability. To ensure protection of environment and to enhance pro-environmental activities in the university premises, the BHU Policy on Environment and Sustainable Development has been adopted. Prof. Singh leadership has helped in planting 400 acres of forest at Rajiv Gandhi South Campus, Barkachha with the funding of Ministry of Rural Development; Government of Uttar Pradesh in addition of developing 500 acres of Biodiversity Park with the support of National Biodiversity Authority Chennai, will put BHU in leadership role in gaining of Carbon Credits in the country.
Other initiative like all the new buildings to have rain water harvesting system, vertical expansions of the future buildings in BHU so that more green area is left for eco-friendly campus, every faculty and institute to have provision for safe disposal of degradable and non-degradable waste including used Pooja flowers of Kashi Vishwanath Temple to be converted into organic fertilizers, use of less insecticides and pesticides at agriculture farm, use less of petroleum and smoke pollution free zone are some wonderful initiative which have helped making BHU one of the most eco-friendly and green campuses in the country and is providing a model not only for Purvanchal but whole of India. Down to earth Prof. Singh loves to paddle bicycle at least on the last working day of every month. When Prof. Singh initiated, 'The Cycling Drive' on 5th June, 2009 on World Environment Day and declared that he will use bicycle every last working day, many in the campus and Varanasi had not taken him sincerely. Prof. Singh is a man of his world as he has kept his promise till date. Many in Delhi and other part of country recognize him as the Vice Chancellor who paddles bicycle for his office work. The contributions are many more... the above are tip of iceberg. We feel it is 'quite a contribution' by a single man, who has made the differences in the Environmental front. We have been proud to publish these contributions and the impact has been realized in whole of Purvanchal.
It is the nature of mankind to acknowledge such contributions to sustain and improve the quality of life. We as the forth pillar of democracy have leading role to acknowledge and spread these contributions to the masses.
Photo caption: BHU vice-chancellor Dr DP Singh (right, in light green shirt) receiving the Environmentalist of the Decade Award in Varanasi on June 5, 2010.
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Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. P. Singh has been conferred the Distinguished life-long Professorship of Banaras Hindu University.
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Varanasi: The recent decision of Banaras Hindu University administration to restrict accommodation of two research scholars in one room of each hostels may have irked the PhD students of the university, but the decision has proved enough to accommodate the increased strength of students in the forthcoming academic session (2010-2011) that is already burdened with the implementation of 27 per cent OBC quota.
It may be mentioned here that around 2,400 seats have been increased owing to the OBC quota in the coming academic session and with construction of new hostels in the university yet to be completed, the university administration had no option but to accommodate two research scholars in one room for the coming academic session.
According to Prof AR Tripathi, dean of students, BHU, the decision has been taken for the coming academic session only and it is hoped that the construction of new hostels would be completed before the next academic session. The problems faced by the students have been brought to the notice of university administration and the matter has been resolved peacefully, he added.
Reports of Institute of Technology (IT), BHU indicate that as many as 801 seats could be created in the four hostels including Vishwakarma, Vishveshraiya, Vivekanand and CV Raman if the provision of accommodation of two research scholars in one room is done. Similarly, as many as 28 additional seats could be created in Triveni hostel for girl candidates in the coming academic session.
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TNN, Jul 21, 2010, 08.55pm IST
ALLAHABAD: The Allahabad high court has directed Banaras Hindu University (BHU) that in order to ensure free and fair examinations and to remove any kind of doubt or suspicion in the minds of the candidates, the university in forthcoming examinations for post-graduate admissions introduce a system of allowing the candidates to retain their question papers.
The court also directed that the university should make provision for a carbon copy of the OMR sheets and allow the candidates to retain the same and also make available an answer key to the questions after declaration of the result in case of demand by any candidate by placing it on the website of the university.
Giving this judgment, a division bench comprising Chief Justice F I Rebello and Justice A P Sahi observed that the candidates are entitled to know as to how and in what manner their answers do not match with the key answers. For this, they are entitled to retain their question papers, a carbon copy of OMR sheets and information about the key answers.
This judgment was delivered while disposing of the special appeal filed by Dr Arpit Jain and Others.
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Varanasi: The issue of introduction of academic performance (AP) indicators, based on performance-based appraisal system (PBAS) for appointment of associate professors and professors was discussed during a meeting of senior officials of the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Wednesday.
The varsity spokesperson said that BHU vice chancellor D P Singh presided over the meeting which was convened to discuss UGC regulations on minimum qualification for appointment of teachers and other academic staffs in the university. The issues like professional ethics, age, minimum qualification and scale of pay for teaching staffs were also discussed in the meeting.
Later, the vice-chancellor talked about the qualities like learning, teaching and evaluation-related activities for teaching staffs of the university.
Kashi Naresh Kunwar Anant Narayan Singh receiving traditional prasad and garlands on the second day of Rathyatra festivities in the city on Wednesday.
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Mihika Basu / DNA
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:53 IST
Mumbai: As many as 469 seats reserved for the other backward classes (OBC) remain vacant after the first allotment of seats in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
Some candidates didn’t make it despite a relaxation in the cut-off mark; several also failed to prove their OBC status, according to the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) organising committee.
The older IITs are implementing the last phase of the 27% reservation for OBC candidates this year. The eight new IITs have been implementing the quota at one go.
“The IITs had set aside 2,570 seats for OBCs, but only 2,023 were filled. Some candidates could not establish their OBC status. Also, there were not enough qualified candidates. Further, many got the courses of their choice as general category students. The unfilled seats have therefore been transferred to the general category,” said TS Natarajan, JEE organising chairman and professor at IIT Madras.
Of the 2,570 seats under the OBC category, 78 (around 3%) are reserved for students with physical disabilities. Of the remaining 2,492 seats, only 2,023 have been filled.
Of the 1,27,760 OBC candidates who appeared for the JEE, only 2,357 could qualify. So, there was already a shortfall of over 200 candidates. And, of those who qualified, 868 candidates had to be selected by giving 10% relaxation, while the remaining 1,489 made it to the list on merit. “But, despite the relaxation, we couldn’t fill up all the seats,” said another JEE official.
In 2009, 1,949 OBC students had qualified for 1,594 seats. But 51 OBC seats were converted to the general category.
Similarly, for scheduled tribe (ST) candidates, 212 seats could not be filled this year. SC/ST candidates, along with students with physical disabilities, get 50% relaxation from the last general category candidate.
A further 50% relaxation is given to those who do not qualify so that they can be sent for the one-year preparatory course.
Of the 15,975 ST candidates who took the JEE this year, only 517 qualified to seek admission to 712 seats. Of these, 498 had to be selected by giving 50% relaxation.
“There are 721 seats for ST candidates, but we haven’t been able to fill 212 seats despite so much concession. These will be transferred to preparatory course. For PD candidates, 90 seats couldn’t be filled and have been transferred to the preparatory course,” Natarajan said.
In case of SC candidates, six seats are yet to be filled and the IITs are hoping to do so in the second round of allotment. In 2009, over 1,000 seats reserved for SCs and STs remained vacant and had to be transferred to the preparatory course and were filled after lowering the bar by another 50%. The exact picture will emerge after the second allotment on July 16.
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Mihika Basu / DNA
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:36 IST
Mumbai: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, continues to be the preferred destination for top ranking candidates of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).
After the first round of course allotment, 68 of the top 99 rankers, considered to be the elite, have chosen IIT Bombay. Twenty-four of the ‘elite’ chose IIT Delhi, a marginal increase from 16 in 2009.
The second round of seat allotment will be declared on July 16.
The trend has been consistent since 2005 when 52 of the top 100 rankers opted for IIT Bombay; the number was 69 last year.
Several factors, like academics, overall ambience, location in the country’s financial hub, growing awareness about IIT Bombay in the world and its reputation for attracting some of the best companies, have made it very popular among IIT aspirants, say experts.
“Students are the best judge. They perhaps perceive the overall infrastructure, teaching, facilities and avenues available at IIT Bombay better than the others,” said Anil Kumar, JEE chairman, IIT Bombay.
Besides a vibrant campus life, said an academician, students are also attracted by IIT Bombay’s focus on extra-curricular activities through its “popular technology and cultural competitions like Techfest and Mood Indigo”.
However, other IITs like that of Kanpur, which was considered ‘the place to be’ a decade or so ago, have slipped in popularity among top rankers over the years.
Last five years’ data shows that while IIT Kanpur had 17 among the top 100 in 2005 and 20 in 2006, the figure came down to six in 2009 and this year, the number stands at five (out of 99).
Among top 198 rankers this year, IIT Bombay is again a winner with 100 opting for it, followed by 53 at IIT Delhi. IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur have 23 and 22 of the top 198 respectively.
The other older IITs like Kharagpur, Guwahati and Roorkee or the eight new IITs cannot boast of any among the top 99 or 198.
Similarly, of the top 470, the numbers are 182 at IIT Bombay, 125 at Delhi, 66 at Madras and 97 at Kanpur. Here too, the new IITs or the older ones did not manage to get even one student after the first round.
“Though there won’t be much change in the top 300, the exact picture will emerge only after the second round of allotment,” said Kumar.
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Charu Sudan Kasturi, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, July 26, 2010
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur was secretly — and illegally — keeping aside a discretionary admission quota for children of its teachers and staff for over four decades, admitting dozens of students to seats they failed to secure through the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination.
Documents accessed by HT using the RTI Act show the country’s oldest IIT — started in 1951 — blocked 25 per cent of its seats in popular five-year integrated science courses (up to M. Sc level) for handpicked nominees, even as students from the rest of India had to clear the IIT-JEE for admission.
IIT wards merely needed 60 per cent marks in their Class XII Board examination and should have appeared in the IIT-JEE to be eligible for the quota seats, doled out at the institute director’s discretion.
Between 2003 and 2005, those who got in through this illegal quota didn’t even need to appear for the entrance exam.
The secret quota was suspended in 2005, the year the RTI Act was launched, and was abandoned in 2006 under pressure from the Joint Admission Board of all IITs, which organises entrance examination.
“This was the most shameful chapter in the history of the IITs. I tried convincing colleagues to end the quota, but failed,” said a former IIT Kharagpur director who was in charge for several years when the quota was in place.
The IIT admitted 88 students through the secret quota between 1998 and 2005, including 50 in 2003 and 2004, documents reveal. The quota was never disclosed in admission brochures — unlike all other reservations for backward communities that the IITs have.
The beneficiaries of the secret quota include the children of Madhusudan Chakraborty, now the Director of IIT Bhubaneswar and V K Tewari, the organising chairman of the IIT-JEE in 2006. Chakraborty, who has also been deputy director of IIT Kharagpur, confirmed the discretionary quota to HT but argued: “Not only my son, the sons and daughters of many others in the faculty were also admitted through this quota.”
The IIT has not disclosed exactly when the quota was started, but minutes of an August 16, 1988 board of governors meeting reveal that the quota existed even before the IIT-JEE was started in the mid-1960s.
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Kiran Wadhwa, Hindustan Times
Mumbai, July 28, 2010
From this year, the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) will allow students to opt for courses from a senior year if they are eligible. For example, second-year students could take up a third- or fourth-year course along with their current programmes. This will allow students to free up time for other activities such as exchange programmes.
“There should also be vacancies in the courses students have opted for. They should have a good Cumulative Performance Index (the grading system for IITs) and an aptitude for the course,” said S. Biswas, dean, academic programmes.
Called ‘Open Bulletin’, the option will be implemented across departments. The system is followed in all foreign universities. Students will be given credits for the courses they take up. “If a student moves ahead by a semester, he or she will free up six months and can use that time for an exchange programme. All he or she has to do is inform the department and follow procedure,” said Manas Rachh, general secretary, academic affairs (undergraduate).
The choice is open only for students from the second year because first-year students are new to the IIT system.
Open Bulletin is part of the larger curriculum revamp that began in 2007, which also allows inter-disciplinary studies where students can opt for courses from humanities to design along with their regular programmes.
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Posted On: 27-Jul-2010 05:45:38 PM By: Vivek Shukla
Greater Noida: Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is developing an extension centre at knowledge hub of NCR at Greater Noida. It would most probably start admitting students from next academic session. It would greatly help students belonging to capital and NCR region.
Ten acre campus is located in the Knowledge Park –II, Plot no. 20, by the side of Express Highway at Greater Noida. It is surrounded by a large number of technical institutions and industries. IIT Roorkee, through this extension centre intends to extend its outreach to the industry and academia. This centre of IIT Roorkee will be used to undertake extension and other related activities.
A brain storming session with the representatives of industry, academia and government agencies in NCR at a common platform was organized to identify their needs and accordingly to identify various activities to be undertaken at the centre. This session was attended by 57 delegates representing 30 industries/agencies from diverse backgrounds for opinion sharing and cooperation. Shri Ashok Bhatnagar, Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Roorkee presided over the event. Prof. S. C. Saxena, Director IIT Roorkee initiated the deliberations.
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TNN, Jul 10, 2010, 10.33pm IST
VARANASI: Importance of developing new technique and research in the field of non-ferrous metals was highlighted on Saturday on the concluding day of two-day 14th international conference on non-ferrous metals.
Urging the academic institutions, especially the department of metallurgical engineering, to focus on techniques for pushing production of non-ferrous metals like aluminum, Arun Kumar of HINDALCO stressed on the need for inclusion of at least one complete session course for providing technical inputs on aluminum production during his technical presentation.
Prof GS Mahobia of department of metallurgical engineering, IT-BHU, discussed the effects of atmosphere on nickel-based metals while AK Vaishya of National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, highlighted the lead recovery technique from lead battery scrap in the technical sessions.
It may be mentioned here that department of metallurgical engineering, IT-BHU, in association with the Corporate Monitor, had organised the conference.
SK Banerjee, chairman, conference organising committee, Prof AK Ghose, co-chairman and senior professor, department of metallurgical engineering, IT-BHU were also present.
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Posted: Mon Jul 26 2010, 19:59 hrs New Delhi:
The Gujar Mal Modi Science Foundation has announced to confer this year’s Gujar Mal Modi Innovative Science & Technology Award to Professor P. Rama Rao, an internationally renowned scientist for his outstanding contributions in the field of Metallurgy.
(Prof. P. Rama Rao)
Professor Palle Rama Rao, presently Chairman, Governing Council, ARCI, Hyderabad, obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics-Metallurgy from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India in 1964.
He was a post-doctoral research associate during 1966-67 at the University of Pennsylvania. Starting his career at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Professor Rao furthered his research and taught physical and mechanical metallurgy at the Banaras Hindu University for nearly two decades.
The Award will carry a cash prize of Rs. Two Lakh and One thousand, the scroll of honour and a silver shield, which will be presented to Professor P. Rama Rao on 9th August 2010.
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Additional Links:
Interview with Palle Rama Rao in Chronicle April 2010 issue:
http://www.itbhuglobal.org/chronicle/archives/2010/04/interview_with_32.php
About Gujar Mal Modi in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarmal_Modi
Modi Group of Companies-Homepage
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